Dick Cheney's old company, Halliburton, was granted the contract to put out oil well fires in Iraq without a bidding process, this is being viewed with a skeptical eye in the media.

Even though the U.S. is proposing to act in the interest of the world, Bush has managed to terrify the entire world and to turn the world against him and us and to make our situation infinitely more dangerous than it otherwise would have been. It's a display of diplomatic and political incompetence on a colossal scale. We're going to pay for this.